The systems of Georgetown County have been hacked at the end of January, and the county staff is still working to rebuild its computer network. The attack chain began with a malicious email, the intruders demanded the payment of a ransom to give back the control of the countys systems to the its staff. The county administration refused to pay the ransom and started cleaning infected systems, its IT experts have been working to restore the impacted network. At the time of this writing, there is no indication that tax, employment or other private information was exfiltrated.”]
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